To say it’s been dead around here would be an understatement. Certainly, I haven’t written anything since early November and the election, but that’s not to say I’ve not been productive.
Quite the contrary — my efforts and creative energies have been focused on something I never thought would happen — a rebirth of my YouTube channel and, as a result, my video making career. What started as a “let’s see how this goes” riffing of a certain creationist lolcow has resulted in me producing literally days worth of content over the past 5 months — far more than I had produced in the entire past 11 years of my channel – and growth I never expected.
It’s safe to say I found my people.. or better to say my people found me, and I’m glad to be someone who provides entertainment to many dozens of people at a time in my livestreams, and with all my other uploaded content, something for nearly 1000 subscribers to enjoy.
Granted, the vast majority of it is me ripping into that same lolcow, but that’s what you do with someone that… special.. on the internet — you milk the cow for everything you can get from it, and in the case of this individual, I feel completely justified in doing such.
My creative drive, however, goes beyond just those videos. I do wish to make more varied content, much of which I have wanted to do for years but never bothered with thanks to the garbage reach my videos had — that being said, for some reason YouTube would never show the videos to the proper people. Funny how that happens, but whatever — I have an audience now and I know many would enjoy seeing more from me than the normal, and so I intend to provide it. The question is what to start with, and when….
Which brings me to this place — my wonderful blog of oh so many years. It has been neglected heavily over the past near 5 years, and I hope to finally change that — writing more entries than the past 5 years combined in 2025, to make up for lost time, one could say. Perhaps I’ll be able to leverage my awesome YouTube community to enjoy some of what I put here? Just depends on if I write things they want to read.
Still, for all this optimism things aren’t perfect. Life is still, shall we say, hindered, by a multitude of factors beyond my immediate control and every day I grow increasingly tired of this situation. However, I stay fighting the good fight in the knowledge that eventually the tide will turn and I’ll be in my place of Zen, in a sense — happy, to put it simply.
In a twist this year (and something that, while belated, I still wish to write about) it would be fitting that the “most mysterious song on the internet” would finally be identified this past year, just before the election no less — I say this because the songs mood is, somehow, optimistic yet clouded in a kind of sorrow that just… is a unique feeling.
In that spirit i end this final entry for 2024 with a live performance of that song – Subways of Your Mind — from May of 1985, when I was only a few months old, which not only demonstrates just how skilled the members of the band FEX are as musicians, but also was one of those things we never thought we would have when 2024 began — not just the identity of the song, but multiple versions, including this live take. Just like I had no idea that my YouTube career would finally take off as it did, this too was a pleasant surprise that made some good out of what was honestly another forgettable year for me personally.
Here’s to 2025, the year everything changes for the better.